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Word | Litotes |
Hindi Meaning | लीटोटा, किसी बात को कोमल ढंग से कहना, पर्यायोक्ति |
understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes / A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression / understatement for emphasis / ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry , meaning you'll be glad ). / understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in “not a bad singer” or “not unhappy”), | |
Usage | ⇒ To say, "He little realizes," when we mean that he does not realize at all, is an example of the kind of understatement we call litotes. ⇒ Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes , or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony. |
Synonyms | figure of speech, meiosis, understatement, coloring, colouring, distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, falsification, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, malapropism, metaphor, miosis, misstatement, misteaching, perversion, simile, slanting, |
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